Ask a Big Aussie Bloke...
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Awesome thread and bumping for the list of places to visit! My hubby and I always have said we want to visit, but will most likely stay!
Yes you should stay. It's lovely down here
Good to have you back aussiebloke!0 -
Hey Big Aussie Bloke (mind if I call you BAB?)! Just wondering if you guys claim Mel Gibson at all anymore, now that he's lost his accent and gone crazy. And how do you feel about an Englishman as the new Mad Max?0
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I've been in Australia for almost 7 hours now. Why haven't I seen a kangaroo or a dingo? :sad: (totally stereotyping for giggles)0
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Welcome to Australia Bregalad The dingoes only come out when you are camping they dont like the suburbs
The kangaroos, ummm they are off playing with the drop bears planning their point of attack :laugh:
As an aside where are you travelling to in Australia?0 -
Welcome to Australia Bregalad The dingoes only come out when you are camping they dont like the suburbs The kangaroos, ummm they are off playing with the drop bears planning their point of attack :laugh:
As an aside where are you travelling to in Australia?
Haha. I don't really expect to see too many :P Just having a little giggle about it.
Right now I'm visiting the Gold Coast (staying in Surfers Paradise, right on the beach). Next Friday I'll hop over to Perth for eight days.0 -
Welcome to Australia Bregalad The dingoes only come out when you are camping they dont like the suburbs The kangaroos, ummm they are off playing with the drop bears planning their point of attack :laugh:
As an aside where are you travelling to in Australia?
Haha. I don't really expect to see too many :P Just having a little giggle about it.
Right now I'm visiting the Gold Coast (staying in Surfers Paradise, right on the beach). Next Friday I'll hop over to Perth for eight days.
Oh good pic of Surfers there on your profile! Have a nice time over here.0 -
How about Indians ? Any good jokes there ? :bigsmile:
haha I wanna hear too!!! LOL0 -
What's your favourite colour? Blue.
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What do you think about your neighbours?0
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Welcome to Australia Bregalad The dingoes only come out when you are camping they dont like the suburbs The kangaroos, ummm they are off playing with the drop bears planning their point of attack :laugh:
As an aside where are you travelling to in Australia?
Haha. I don't really expect to see too many :P Just having a little giggle about it.
Right now I'm visiting the Gold Coast (staying in Surfers Paradise, right on the beach). Next Friday I'll hop over to Perth for eight days.
Oh good pic of Surfers there on your profile! Have a nice time over here.
Yeah, I just took that a little bit ago for my friends list to see where I'm staying 0 -
What do you think about your neighbours?
Which ones? the ones next door couldnt care less the ones over the ocean as in NZ ahh they seem pretty cool 0 -
Thought I'd give an update. 2 weeks and 2 days in Australia now and I still haven't seen any dangerous critters. I did see one spider that was larger than any I've seen before, but it was apparently not a dangerous one. I'm actually slightly disappointed! :sad: I have 6 more days in Perth (had to extend my vacation for a week due to visa delays so can't head to my new job in Russia yet), so there's still time, I suppose...
(for those non-Aussies reading this, yes, I did see a gigantic mob of kangaroos!)0 -
My kid saw a completely terrifying non-venomous green tree snake at school last week in suburban Brisbane.
My tennis mate's friend was bitten by a redback spider on the weekend and ignored it until he started to suffer breathing difficulties and went to the doctor. His arm is still very swollen and red.
Brisbane is a perilous place.
On the plus side, we have had 2 legal mudcrabs in the pot on the Indooroopilly reach of the Brisbane River this week.0 -
On the plus side, we have had 2 legal mudcrabs in the pot on the Indooroopilly reach of the Brisbane River this week.
Crabs? This guy was adorable (at Canal Rocks in WA):
Edit: If anyone is interested, this is one of my favorite pictures so far of my trip (also from Canal Rocks, and not going to resize it, sorry, so right click -> view image):
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Thats a great shot bregalad. :happy:
Honestly people over dramatize things to do with Australia :laugh: :laugh:0 -
Thats a great shot bregalad. :happy:
Honestly people over dramatize things to do with Australia :laugh: :laugh:
Hey shhhhhhhhhhhh! I like doing that.0 -
Thats a great shot bregalad. :happy:
Honestly people over dramatize things to do with Australia :laugh: :laugh:
Hey shhhhhhhhhhhh! I like doing that.
Well, we hear on the Discovery Channel and stuff like that about all the dangerous things there, so it's not just people telling us that, it's media. Something like 5 of the 10 most dangerous animals are in Australia.0 -
Well, we hear on the Discovery Channel and stuff like that about all the dangerous things there, so it's not just people telling us that, it's media. Something like 5 of the 10 most dangerous animals are in Australia.
I remember seeing a show...it was "101 Ways to Die in Australia Within 50 feet of Your Hotel Room" or something like that ;^) and there was a snail that lives on rocks by the beach...if you step on it, it whips out a RAZOR SHARP appendage of some kind, SLICES your foot open, INJECTS you with poison and you're dead within minutes. Seriously. It was horrifying.0 -
Well, we hear on the Discovery Channel and stuff like that about all the dangerous things there, so it's not just people telling us that, it's media. Something like 5 of the 10 most dangerous animals are in Australia.
I remember seeing a show...it was "101 Ways to Die in Australia Within 50 feet of Your Hotel Room" or something like that ;^) and there was a snail that lives on rocks by the beach...if you step on it, it whips out a RAZOR SHARP appendage of some kind, SLICES your foot open, INJECTS you with poison and you're dead within minutes. Seriously. It was horrifying.
That would be the cone shell, does't slice your foot open, but does shoot a venomous 'harpoon' out that will kill you pretty quick. Scariest thing is, it doesn't have to shoot it in a straight line, but can bend it cause the harpoon is attached to a tentacle.0 -
That would be the cone shell, does't slice your foot open, but does shoot a venomous 'harpoon' out that will kill you pretty quick. Scariest thing is, it doesn't have to shoot it in a straight line, but can bend it cause the harpoon is attached to a tentacle.
That's even worse!! Depending on how long the harpoon-tentacle is, you could just innocently step nearby and it could decide it doesn't like the cut of your jib or the style of your espadrilles or whatever, and pow!! Snail harpoon of death. Yeesh.0 -
and the risks of half of this stuff happening is extremely low!!!!!! Ive never even seen this snail nor heard of it!! Never seen a cone shell either that does that.0
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and the risks of half of this stuff happening is extremely low!!!!!! Ive never even seen this snail nor heard of it!! Never seen a cone shell either that does that.
And to think, the only dangerous animal/critter where I'm from is the rattlesnake, and I've never even see one
Just remember, when you grew up in an environment, you don't realize how different it is from other places. If you ask a guy who grew up in a rough neighborhood, he'd likely say that the risks of getting shot are extremely low, but you'd probably still be scared to walk through his neighborhood... We usually don't fully realize our environment until we leave it.0 -
and the risks of half of this stuff happening is extremely low!!!!!! Ive never even seen this snail nor heard of it!! Never seen a cone shell either that does that.
I've seen some when I was walking on the Great Barrier Reef at Heron Island. Very dangerous.0 -
My dream has always been to visit Australia, but I am TERRIFIED of spiders and you guys have the Funnel Web Spider...those suckers can kill you instantly (or so I've heard) so I am doomed to looking at pictures of the beautiful country!! :sad:
My mum was bitten by a funnel web THROUGH GARDENING GLOVES in the 70's before we had anti-venom. She lived to tell the tale, but at the time I thought she was going to die. So did she.
(Sydney, NSW)0 -
My dream has always been to visit Australia, but I am TERRIFIED of spiders and you guys have the Funnel Web Spider...those suckers can kill you instantly (or so I've heard) so I am doomed to looking at pictures of the beautiful country!! :sad:
My mum was bitten by a funnel web THROUGH GARDENING GLOVES in the 70's before we had anti-venom. She lived to tell the tale, but at the time I thought she was going to die. So did she.
(Sydney, NSW)
Wow very scary!!! Got to watch out when you put shoes on down there especially if left outside.0 -
As a fellow Aussie, the ignorance and curiosity on this feed cracks me up. :laugh: We could turn it around and make generalisations about other nations, but let's not, eh? 0
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As a fellow Aussie, the ignorance and curiosity on this feed cracks me up. :laugh: We could turn it around and make generalisations about other nations, but let's not, eh?
I know for myself my "ignorance" on this thread was all silly stereotyping for fun. I've traveled the world and like to have a little fun in the process, joking around with people about the stereotypes about their countries. I let people poke fun at me, too. I've had a lot of fun already in Russia joking around with my co-workers about their vodka consumption and how it actually does fit the stereotype
Maybe the others were serious and actually don't know?0 -
This is what I think of when I think of Aussie Blokes. Yum.
Oh, wait, that wasn't a question.
Not Australian, thank goodness.
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Hw do you keep from falling off the world into space???
This. Also, what's it like living upside down? Is there any kind of learning curve, or are you just naturally able to do it?
I moved from QLD (ocean on the east side) to Adelaide in SA where the ocean is on the western side. I was constantly going the wrong way. Once when I thought I was heading north, I ended up in the ocean (which is in the south). Totally screwed with my head having the beach on the wrong side.0 -
Is it true you don't call a parking lot......a parking lot? I had an australian pen pal/email pal for years and I always thought he was messing with me on that one lol.
He was right.... I have never used the term "Parking Lot" I have parked my car in a "Car Park" though:drinker:
Yup...they are 'car parks'.0
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